Swimming in Tri-Cities

It may be winter outside, but at a local indoor pool it’s summer all year long. Today contributor Lina Kunina shares the inside scoop on Tri-Cities swimming pools.

City Centre Aquatic Complex

Located in the heart of Coquitlam, right across from City Hall, City Centre Aquatic Complex has something for every member of the family. Decorated like a scene from a fairy tale, with lobsters and owls, it’s a very thematic pool. If you are planning to lead a healthier lifestyle in 2013, a fitness centre is available for your use. It’s a great way to workout and stretch before beginning to swim laps in their 50 or 25 metre lap pool. They even open at 5:30 am Monday through Saturday, for the early birds among us.

Open until 10:30 pm every day of the week, City Centre is a great place to go to spend some fun time with the family. It’s a wheelchair accessible pool, which means there is more fun for everyone. Their warm water leisure pool with waves is the main attraction for the little ones in your family, and a tot pool is available. A waterslide, zipline, rope swing and even a wibit obstacle course are all a way to entertain the hard to please tweens and teens while the parents relax in a steam room, sauna or a whirl pool.

Apart from all the fun, they also offer classes. You can take anything from swimming and diving lessons to water zumba.

1210 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam
604.927.6999

Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex

Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex can accommodate 2,200 people just in the main area. This makes the pool a great place to host your next party or event. It features a 25 metre, six lane lap pool, as well as a whirlpool, steam room and sauna. It is probably the best of the three pools for sports. After a nice long workout in their 6,800 square foot Fitness Centre or a skate on their NHL sized ice rink, you can enjoy a nice long swim.

Enjoy a free monthly swim, courtesy of Westminister Savings, on the first Friday of each month from 7:00-9:00pm.

633 Poirier Street, Coquitlam
604.927.6027

Hyde Creek Recreation Centre

Hidden in the trees of a nature reserve and bordering the Traboulay trail in Port Coquitlam you’ll find a little gem. Hyde Creek Recreation Centre consists of 55,000 square feet of the very latest in recreation services and facilities. Decorated with the theme of a little village, it is completely renovated. Complete with a lap pool, a leisure pool, a river run, a climbing wall, water slide, sauna, whirlpool, and a steam room it will easily make everyone in your family happy.

The fitness complex also includes racquetball and squash courts, a gymnasium, a full service weight and fitness room with the very latest machines, an aerobics/dance studio and a martial arts studio complete with a sprung floor.

The facility provides special interest areas, including rooms for children’s programming, one with its own mini-kitchen, a youth centre complete with pool tables, a fireplace and even a kitchen.